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Public Article on NetBackup Appliance Maintenance Releases

Please check out this living document. Welcome all feedback. https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100049781

NetBackup Appliance 3.3.0.1 Maintenance Release 1 (MR1) is now available

NetBackup Appliance 3.3.0.1 Maintenance Release 1 (MR1) is now available in the Download Center. https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/downloads/update.UPD236988 Please install it *before* installing any other EEB/HotFix. If you install it af...

Late Breaking News and Important Updates about NetBackup Appliances Page

Please note the the following link: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100038989 This is the *only* page that will provide Late Breaking News and Important Updates about NetBackup Appliances. Every effort will be made to keep this ...

Resolved! Netbackup 5230: Can I use all of the network ports for backup?

Hi All, I have a Netbackup 5230 appliance 2.6.0.2 with 4x1Gb network port. I need to use eth0 for initial configuration. So I will bond rest of the network ports. Can I include eth0 to bond, after initial configuration? Regards

Resolved! Migrating tape libraries to new appliance?

I have to decommission my old 5200 which has been hosting two tape libraries used only for monthly tape jobs. I'm moving the libraries to a new 5230 but was curouse what this means for the archived monthly tapes. If i try and do a restore from one...

Resolved! Master Server cold stand-by on NetBackup Appliance

I need some advise please on the follow requirement guys; We bought two 5220 appliances from Symantec last year with an intention to use as active/stand-by Master servers by avoiding single point of failure for the NBU Master server. We call them Ap...

Resolved! NBU appliance cannot detect overland tape library and robots

Hello All NBU appliance 5220 at version 2.5 NBU 7.5. zoning is all done at switch level. aliases created as per WWN. zones created for robot , tape drives and appliance HBA. But NBU appliance unable to detect overland tape library and robots. Sca...

Resolved! How do I create client install files from the Admin console in 7.6?

I used to be able to create an install file (well a tar file) from the Admin console in NBU 6.5 for each varitey of UNIX clients we have. The enviroment was upgraded to 7.6 with an appliance and I can't seem to figure out how to create the tar files ...

Duplicating Images from one Appliance to another

Hi All, Need to decommission an Appliance and need to get all images it holding transferred to another Appliance. Due to shortage of time I cannot wait till the images expire on another appliance as the retention is set to 2 months. I am wondering ...

Resolved! NBU appliance upgrade

Hi Folks, I have a NBU appliance 5220 , at version and disk space : Appliance Version: 2.5.3 NetBackup Version: 7.5.0.6 Build Date: 20130628 UKDC1:/home/maintenance # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 ...

Resolved! Intersite replicatoin and use of WAN optimization

Hi All, We are planning to configure AIR between two appliances 5230 located at two different sites connect with unrelible connection. Would WAN optimization help me in this situations. How? Regards,

Resolved! MSDP pool size in 5330

Hi All, Any idea the different capacity versions the appliance is coming in and the max MSDP pool size in 5330. Regards,

Resolved! Netbackup support for clustered appliance

Hi All, Just wondering when would the support for clustered master server come ? There are many customers demanding high availability for the appliances.. Regards,

Resolved! Did anyone worked on AIR required_interface setting ?

I need to route my Network Traffic in an already configured AIR Environment to an alternate unconfigure interface. This would be to eth0 on the appliance which is unconfigured. Can someone share with me the steps that needs to be followed here ? ...

Dedupe factor with Oracle Data Guard shipped transaction logs

Hi All, I learned that the Data guard has a capability of shipping transaction logs in such a way that it does not replace a whole log file but just the changes at the block level. I am just curious if this will allow us to backup those files with g...

Resolved! Decommission of NBU 5000s

I need to decommission 2 NBU 5000s and can't find clear information on doing that. I pointed all policies to other storage and allowed everything on the appliances to expire. Is there a tech note or other documentation on removing them?

Resolved! Migrating Master server from appliance to a Windows/Linux server

Hi All, Kindly help me in understanding if this is possible. I have a 5230 configured as Master and media server(2.6.0.1). I want to take out the Master component from it and migrate/move it to another server either with Linux or windows OS. Kindl...

Resolved! VMware backup over SAN: Appliance to ESX zoning

Guys, I have a Solaris based Master server and 5 x 5220 Appliances (media). I am interested to configure VMware backup over SAN. I need confirmation on whether zoning between Appliance (media server) to ESX is required? If yes, then Appliace is Ini...

Resolved! Disable all Jobs while patching

We're about to upgrade our 5230 appliances to 2.6.0.3 and I want to be sure our scheduled jobs don't start during the patch. What's the easiest way? All jobs are configured through SLP's. Thanks

Resolved! NBU appliance 5220 - access to script output

Hi Folks I ran few scripts on my nbu appliance and output saved at location /home/maintenance/tmp . there are close to around 6 files with output saved in them. Please tell me various methods in details by which I can save these files on my laptop ...

Resolved! opscenter port

Hii, Netbackup : 7.6.0.2 OS : Linux Opscenter : OpsCenter_7.6.0.1 Link : https://*.*.*.*:443/opscenter/ Can anybody please tell me the port required for accessing opscenter through web browser. Becausing when I am accessing opscenter through UR...

Resolved! 5230 appliance and VTL

So can a 5230 be a vtl? We have a AS400 that can backup to VTL but is not natively support by netbackup. Is there a way to make the appliance accept vtl type connection. Or am I spinning my wheels and need to find another solution for the OS400. ...

Resolved! System partition low on space

Hi all, I have an appliance 5220, which is alerting me that the system partition(?) is running low on space and only has 16% free space available I've had a look around and it seems the /tmp directory is at fault, using 55gb. I've cleared infile*,...

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